North East Lincolnshire Council

( dont provoke me with impunity )

What bunch of monkeys executives run our council

• Public Special Interest Report MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING

  Members then debated the issues raised in the reports now submitted. The Leader of the Council pointed out that the seriousness of the issues raised was accepted by all, and he expressed his regret that the Council found itself in this position. Accordingly, he moved the recommendations following the receipt of the PIR now before Council for determination.

• 25% discount fraud

  25% discount fraud You requested: An indication of what information was provided by the 11 councils used to determine the Single Person Discount Review for Council Tax fraud figure in the report Protecting the Public Purse.

• election results

  Profile: Grimsby is a major North Sea port and industrial centre at the mouth of the Humber estuary. It is a major port for both fish – having a long association with the fishing industry – and other goods. Frozen food is a major industry in the town, along with pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Great Grimsby has been Labour since 1945, though only narrowly held in the 1977 by-election that followed Tony Crosland`s death.

• THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE & ACCOUNTANCY

  I suggest that ********, among others during the period 2008 - 2009- performed poorly in relation to financial managment of my council investments. Particularly, as you can see from the report below, important information was missed and my council invested over 4.5 million in the iclandic bank AFTER they had recieved an email of there paid adviseres suggesting it ws unsafe ? I consider this failure substantial and the section 151 officer, as determined by our consitutional arraingements, is responcable I also suggest that the initial investigation conducted by my council was flawed becase it involved people responcable for the failings.

• Standards board probes three councillors

  Two are currently subject to investigation and one is yet to be formally considered. No final decision on whether there has been a breach of the code of conduct has been made in any case. " Mr Walsh said the standards committee will decide if the complaint against Cllr Perrin merits an investigation when it next meets on October 19.

• Council leader: 'I will not stand down'

  Conservatives, led by Coun Keith Brookes, said if Coun De Freitas did not leave his role within 48 hours, they too would back the motion. However, the embattled leader has dismissed the calls as political opportunism. He said he believed the position of the Conservatives had changed since the Liberal Democrats took overall control of the authority following the break-up of their coalition.

• The 'at risk' councils speak out

  We were placed on the list after the death of a child, Philip Martin. It was an extremely distressing and traumatic event for many people living in Lincolnshire.

• NELC's finance controls a 'serious concern'

  We are reviewing your response to the failure of your control framework to prevent the risk of loss of public funds. The control defects identified by Internal Audit remain a serious concern."

• Three senior staff members have been suspended from a social housing group that manages more than 8,400 council homes in North East Lincolnshire.

  New management will run Shoreline Housing Partnership's property services while an investigation is carried out into its performance in the past year. The group took control of the council's housing stock in March 2005.

• The leaders of a council branded the worst in the country have vowed to continue a policy of improvement

  North East Lincs Council, which is controlled by a Lib Dem-Tory coalition, was the only authority to get a no-star rating from the Audit Commission.

• North East Lincolnshire has been rated as the worst council in the country, the only authority to be awarded no stars in a national survey.

  North East Lincolnshire has been rated as the worst council in the country, the only authority to be awarded no stars in a national survey.

• A new tougher approach to collecting outstanding rent from ex-council tenants is being taken by North East Lincolnshire Council.

  A new tougher approach to collecting outstanding rent from ex-council tenants is being taken by North East Lincolnshire Council.They are a tracing and debt collection company who will start tracking down defaulters from the end of June. The authority will pay Rossendales on a commission basis in the hope that some, if not all, of the money, owed to the council will be collected. Outstanding bills Councillor Andrew De Freitas, who is responsible for housing, said: "I hope that former tenants who owe money will be sensible and pay their outstanding bills.

• North East Lincolnshire Council is again under fire from government inspectors over its finances.

  North East Lincolnshire Council is again under fire from government inspectors over its finances.The Audit Commission has refused to sign off the authority's accounts for two financial years because of doubts about their accuracy.

• Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have reached an agreement that they will continue to jointly run North East Lincolnshire Council.

  Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have reached an agreement that they will continue to jointly run North East Lincolnshire Council.

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